Jonathan Goodwin

I am an Associate Professor in the Department of English at the University of Louisiana, Lafayette.

I mainly work on twentieth-century British literature. I have written articles on Olaf Stapledon, John Cowper
Powys, John le Carré, James Joyce, and Wyndham Lewis. I also am interested in film and television and have published
essays on the work of David Lynch, David Milch, and Shane Carruth.

My other main area of research involves
computational approaches in the humanities. I co-edited (with John Holbo) a book on Franco Moretti’s Graphs, Maps, Trees. An article that uses
topic-modeling to map disciplinary history was co-written with John Laudun for The Journal of American
Folklore. Most of my other computational work on topic modeling and citation-network analysis appears on this
web site, and it is indexed here.

I am currently writing a book
about how developments in statistics and probability affected cultural representations of social risk and individual
exceptionalism in twentieth-century British literature. My interest in quantitative methods in the humanities at
present also informs this project.

A full list of my publications (with links to the complete articles where
available) is available here.